TO CELEBRATE WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH IN MARCH, PURCHASE COLLEGE, SUNY WILL PRESENT FREE LECTURE ON FEMINISM, REVOLUTION, AND LIBERATION

Feminism. Revolution. Liberation. These have been the rallying cries for over a century in the United States, and now in many countries abroad. And with March being Women’s History Month, what better time to re-examine these timely topics?

On March 8, International Women’s Day, well-known feminist writer Vivian Gornick will discuss her new book, Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life, (Yale University Press, 2011), which addresses the life and work of a heroic, 20^th century revolutionary and anarchist.  The book recounts the story of a modern radical who believed that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Gornick will paint an intimate and insightful portrait of Goldman (1869-1940), who played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. The talk is sponsored by the Purchase Writers Center, the History Board of Study and the Genders Study Program.  The free lecture will take place from 4 to 6 pm at the Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College. 

Please visit the Purchase College website at www.purchase.edu for additional information.

Purchase College, part of the State University of New York (SUNY) network of 64 universities and colleges, was founded in 1967 by Governor Nelson Rockefeller. His aspirations for Purchase were to combine on one campus conservatory training in the visual and performing arts with programs in the liberal arts and sciences. Today, Purchase College, SUNY is a community of students, faculty, and friends where open-minded engagement with the creative process leads to a lifetime of intellectual growth and professional opportunity. For more information about the College, visit www.purchase.edu.